[PROVE] Recent Mumps Cases and Air Travel

[Guest guest]

[PROVE Note: If you've been wondering what the CDC has been up to with the

recent highly sensationalized mumps cases in Iowa and neighboring states, this

little blurb in a Reuters article hints at the CDC's ulterior motive in trying

to make a stink about the airline travelers. They are trying to increase their

power through misleading information and irrational fear. MSNBC just reported

that on the further interviewing of most people with cases - the majority had

been fully vaccinated (MSNBC.com - " What's causing the mumps outbreak? " ) Here

is yet another example of vaccines not working as the public had been told they

would yet the CDC keeps making a public issue about two people on an airplane

and avoiding the question why the vaccine didn't work and avoiding even more the

fact that mumps is a mild illness for the vast majority of the population. Be

vigilant here and really watch what they are doing because the CDC moves in baby

steps to gain power and funding - and they do it all through irresponsibly

causing people to be unnecessarily afraid. The reality is people are wising up

to the fact that vaccines cause harm to many people and they don't work in many

more. What better way is there for the CDC to force them on the public who

doesn't want them than to work in incremental steps to require them for air

travel?]

[The CDC has been using a new system to track travelers who may

pass viruses on airplanes.

Penny Hitchcock, an infectious disease expert at the University

of Pittsburgh Medical Center's Center for Biosecurity, said the

CDC had not explained fully why it was worried about the airline

travelers.

" Warning the general public about the dangers of acquiring infection

from air travel is arguably irresponsible, unless supported by

compelling epidemiological evidence, " Hitchcock said in an e-mail.

Other researchers at the Center have questioned CDC's plans for

monitoring international travelers in case of a pandemic of H5N1

bird flu. " ]

Mumps outbreak concerns U.S. health officials

14 Apr 2006 02:33:24 GMT

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N13326743.htm

Source: Reuters

By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent

WASHINGTON, April 13 (Reuters) - U.S. Public health officials said on Thursday

they were concerned about an outbreak of mumps in the Midwest and said some

people may have been infected on airline flights.

More than 600 people were reported sick in Iowa with the virus, once a common

childhood illness but virtually eradicated with widespread use of the measles,

mumps and rubella vaccine.

" The state of Iowa has been experiencing a large mumps outbreak that began in

December 2005, " the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a

statement.

The Iowa Department of Public Health said it was investigating 605 cases.

" This outbreak has spread across Iowa, and mumps activity, possibly linked to

the Iowa outbreak, is under investigation in six neighboring states, including

Illinois (four cases), Kansas (33 cases), Minnesota (one case), Missouri (four

cases), Nebraska (43 cases), and Wisconsin (four cases), " the CDC said.

Mumps is an infection of the salivary glands caused by a virus. It causes

unpleasant illness including fever, headache, and swelling of the glands around

the jaw.

It can sometimes cause more serious complications including meningitis,

encephalisits, inflammation of the testicles or ovaries, inflammation of the

pancreas and permanent deafness.

It is transmitted by coughing and sneezing and is " about as contagious as

influenza " , the CDC said. People can pass it along from three days before they

are ill.

The CDC said it was tracking two people who took nine flights in April and asked

anyone showing symptoms of mumps to report to state health officials if they had

been on the flights. The CDC has been using a new system to track travelers who

may pass viruses on airplanes.

Penny Hitchcock, an infectious disease expert at the University of Pittsburgh

Medical Center's Center for Biosecurity, said the CDC had not explained fully

why it was worried about the airline travelers.

" Warning the general public about the dangers of acquiring infection from air

travel is arguably irresponsible, unless supported by compelling epidemiological

evidence, " Hitchcock said in an e-mail.

Other researchers at the Center have questioned CDC's plans for monitoring

international travelers in case of a pandemic of H5N1 bird flu.

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